Successful people are self-confident. Self-confident people don’t let their fears get in the way of their success. They follow the career advice in Tweet 47 in Success Tweets. “Act. Feel the fear and do it anyway. That’s the definition of courage, and a great way to build your self-confidence.” Identify your fears, and then do what you need to do to move past them. Action is the great antidote to fear. It puts inertia on your side. Once you are moving forward, you are likely to continue moving forward. It’s the first step that is the hardest – and scariest. If you want to beat your fears, you need to take the first step – act, and then keep on going.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense. Successful people don’t let fear paralyze them into inaction. They follow these four steps for dealing with the fear that can sabotage their career success: identify it, admit it, accept it, do something about it.” Action is the antidote to fear. In most cases, you’ll make good decisions and your fears won’t be realized. In the cases when you choose poorly, you’ll find that failure isn’t as catastrophic as you imagined. Successful people learn from their failures. By taking action on your fears, you win on both counts. You win if you make a good decision and things work out. You even win if you make a bad decision and things go poorly, because you have an opportunity to learn from your decision and the subsequent problems you faced.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense. We all lost a good friend this week, Steve Jobs. I began this post with a quote from George Bernard Shaw that applies to Steve Jobs. I’d like to finish with another one. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Steve Jobs was an unreasonable man – that’s why he is iconic, and the world is a better place for him having been in it. He believed in himself and his ideas. He was incredibly self confident. All successful people are self-confident. They understand and apply the career advice in Tweet 56 in Success Tweets. “Self-confidence must come from within. Outside reinforcement and strokes can help, but you have to build your own confidence.” You can build your self-confidence by becoming an optimist, facing your fears and acting and surrounding yourself with positive people. Self-confidence is an inside job. You have to create it yourself. But once you do, you’ll find that it’s an upward spiral. Your confidence will inspire you to take on challenges. Your success in dealing with these challenges will help you become more confident – which in turn, will allow you to take on and meet even greater challenges. Just look at Steve Jobs and what he created at Apple.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense. Successful people are self-confident. Self-confident people face their fears and act. They follow the career advice in Tweet 45 in Success Tweets. “Everyone is afraid sometime. Self-confident people face their fears and act. Look your fears in the eye and do something.” Procrastination is the physical manifestation of fear. When you find yourself procrastinating, figure out what scares you about the situation. Is it fear of failure? Is it fear of success? Is it fear of rejection? Is it fear of being embarrassed? Is it fear of the unknown? Once you’ve figured out why you are afraid, do three things: admit your fear to yourself; embrace your fear; take action. Action is the antidote to fear and an important career success key.

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The career success quote I sent last Saturday (August 6, 2011) was a good one.  So much so that I’ve decided to blog about it.  It comes from Paul …

For me, the Memorial Day weekend is more than a US holiday and the unofficial start of summer.  Memorial Day weekend is always the middle weekend of the French Open — one of the four tennis majors.   If you read this blog with any regularity, you know that I often find career advice in sporting events.  This year’s French Open presents another opportunity to connect career success with sports.
One of the biggest upsets so far this year was Kim Clijsters loss in the second round to Arantxa Rus, the 114th ranked player in the world.  …

I’m not a big one for jargon, so when I received this guest post from Raine Parker on Hedonic Treadmill Theory, I was tempted to ignore it.  However, it actually contains some great career advice about how to create your life and career success by conquering your fears by taking action. 
I devoted four tweets in my latest career success book Success Tweets to action.  Tweet 48 sums up my thoughts on action.  “Procrastination is the physical manifestation of fear and is a confidence killer.  Act: especially when you’re afraid.”
Raine Parker says that Hedonic Treadmill Theory …

As usual, the January 2011 issue of SUCCESS Magazine has some great life and career success advice.  Are you a subscriber?  If not, I suggest you subscribe to this great print mag as soon as you finish reading this post.
In an article entitled “The 6 Deadly Fears of Entrepreneurship” Beth Douglass Silcox lists six fears common to entrepreneurs.  I think these six fears apply to everyone – not just entrepreneurs.  Take a look…

Fear of Failure
Fear of Inadequacy
Fear of Risks
Fear of Financial Insecurity
Fear of What Others Will Think
Fear of Growth

Before we go on, let me say …

On Monday, I tweeted this bit of career advice.  “When fear knocks on your door, answer.  You’ll probably find that you are the only one there.”
This is true so often.  We let our fears stop us from creating the life and career success we deserve.
I love the acronym for fear.
F    False
E    Evidence
A    Appearing
R    Real
All too often fear stops us dead in our tracks.  We quit on ourselves.  We don’t take advantage of opportunities to create the life and career success we deserve because of fear.  Usually it’s a fear of failure or a fear of …

Happy Independence Day to my readers in the USA.  I hope you are enjoying the long weekend.  Cathy and I did a lot of biking and saw a couple of movies and some great live fireworks on Saturday and enjoyed the Washington DC, New York and Boston ones on TV yesterday. 
I’m still enjoying writing this series of posts on the career advice in my latest book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less.  I hope you are enjoying reading them.  You can purchase a copy of …